Artists pull inspiration from a variety of sources. A revisit to The Little Prince firmly lodged the fox's words in my head: "One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eye." And that got me thinking, how the heck do I paint things that are essential and therefore intangible?
It got me googling last night - I started out with an exploration of edges and how various treatments achieve different results. I got distracted by Gregory Manchess's paintings, and ultimately ended up on David Shevlino's website (and of course I had gloriously colored, fractured, blurrey edged dreams!).
This morning I thought I would give it a try, so I pulled a sketch out of my paint over pile and winged it. From my head (an artists most powerful tool is their visual memory).
I love the variety of marks here, the blurred bits that dissolve irrespective of the form they are meant to sculpt. Like a handful of moments not quite frozen in time - a sliver of an experience. There's a radiant energy, too, built from the gesture of the marks themselves. I may have found one way to approach painting essential and intangible things.
Thanks, as always, for following along with my art journey,
Warmly, Kim
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